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STAFF TIME (CITY ONLY) The City of Eugene will implement management for threatened and endangered plants and prairie habitats on BLM lands. The Technical Specialist will oversee contracts for mowing and hand treatment of woody vegetation and invasive species. Hand treatment will occur from May - September, to control invasive species with early and late phenology. Mowing will occur in late summer, when soils have dried out enough to allow access by machinery. The Technical Specialist will instruct each of the contractors on specific actions and timelines, and inspect Contractor work. The Technical Specialist will also supervise 2 seasonal land stewards for a period of 6 weeks. Land stewards will conduct land management activities, working with a youth crew as available. Stewards will focus on removal of trees and woody vegetation from prairies, and from areas immediately overtopping rare plants. The City of Eugene's Restoration Ecologist will be responsible for developing the draft Action Plan for recovery of Bradshaw's lomatium, Kincaid's lupine, and Willamette daisy in the West Eugene Wetlands. This will include synthesizing plant population data from multiple agencies, creation of a detailed map using ArcGIS for identifying potential functioning networks and suitable habitat for each species, holding scoping meetings, and facilitating the adoption of a unified vision and Action Plan among the West Eugene Wetlands Partners. The Action Plan will be printed and distributed upon completion. CONTRACTUAL SERVICES The WREN Environmental Education Coordinator will facilitate meetings, oversee the creation of an advisory committee, and supervise the Citizen Science Coordinator. The Citizen Science coordinator will recruit volunteers, develop training materials and conduct training workshops for citizen scientists, organize and implement the first project, and write the report. A consultant from the Urban Ecology Center will provide professional expertise to WREN in the development of the Citizen Science program. Institute for Applied Ecology staff will oversee and conduct monitoring of threatened and endangered plant species and high priority habitat areas on BLM lands. The Monitoring Technician will conduct site visits and record data for 18 known populations of the three listed plant species, and conduct habitat quality assessments at 12 high - priority prairie sites. Assessments will include percentage cover of woody vegetation, invasive species, litter and thatch, and native species. The Monitoring Specialist will supervise the Technician, including comparison of monitoring data to USFWS draft recovery targets. Contractor services will be provided for mowing and hand treatment of invasive species and woody vegetation on BLM land, and herbicide treatment for Armenian blackberry, reed canary grass, and Scotch broom on private land. On private land, fill will be removed from prairie areas, which will be recontoured to a natural grade for wet prairie and vernal pool habitat. MATERIALS Land stewards will conduct land management activities, working with a youth crew as available. Materials may include shovels, hammers, hand tools for digging, weed wrenches, weed whacker blades and fuel, shadecloth, stakes, garbage bags and pin flags. The City can provide many of these tools already, NFWF funds would be used on a project -by- project basis as needed. PRINTING NFWF funds will be used to print 5 hard copies of the Action Plan. The print copies will be distributed to West Eugene Wetlands Partners and USFWS. The report will also be posted to the Reports page on the West Eugene Wetlands website (www.eugene- or.qov /wetlands).